Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu


Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu was a French surgeon.
Beginning in 1863 he was an interne of medicine in Paris, later serving as an aide of anatomy and as a prosector to the medical faculty. In 1867 he received his doctorate with a thesis on venous circulation of the foot and leg, two years later obtaining his agrégation in surgery with the dissertation Des anomalies du testicule.
In 1872 he became a surgeon to the "Bureau central", followed by a promotion as chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1876. Subsequently, he was appointed professor to the medical faculty in Paris; second chair of clinical surgery at Hôpital Necker, followed by an assignment as chair of clinical surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu.
Le Dentu is remembered for contributions made in the field of urosurgery; in 1875 being credited with achieving the first recorded occurrence of cure by nephrectomy in France, and in 1898, with Joaquín Albarrán, performing the first nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial cancer.

Written works

He was the author of numerous articles in the fields of surgery and urology. With Pierre Delbet and others, he published the multi-volume Traité de chirurgie clinique et opératoire. He made significant contributions to Sigismond Jaccoud's Nouveau dictionnaire de medecine et de chirurgie. Other publications by Le Dentu include: